Posts Tagged ‘prevent stroke’

Prevent Stroke

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Have you ever wondered why every visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, clinic, or any other health related place always begins with a check of your blood pressure? Because high blood pressure is dangerous and keeping blood pressure at normal levels will prevent stroke.

Well, high blood pressure, also known as “hypertension”, the “silent disease” or the “silent killer” is the measure of pressure that the blood exerts against the wall of your arteries as your heart pumps.

There are people who have dangerously high blood pressure and yet they don’t know it because there are no symptoms for weeks, months, or even years. It is always better to avoid high blood pressure. (more…)

Prevent Stroke

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Blood pressure is called “hypertension” in the medical
world. When your blood pressure is consistently above the
ideal 120/80, you are generally considered “hypertensive”. A
high blood pressure is genetically predisposed in some
individuals, but aside from genes, there are other factors
that also contribute to it.

To make you better understand high blood pressure or
hypertension, you should know what hypertension really is.
When your blood pressure is taken, what is actually measured
is the amount of pressure your blood is exerting against the
walls of your blood vessels. When you get a higher number,
it means that more pressure is being forced against those
walls.

Imagine a balloon with water being filled in it. When more
water is being put in the balloon, it stretches out to
contain the waterup to a certain point. You will see the
balloon thinning out as it gets fuller, and eventually
breaks if you continue putting water into it. So you should be nature oriented to avoid high blood pressure

If you allow your blood pressure to get high and remain
there unchecked, your vessels will suffer the same fate as
the overfilled balloon. They can and will eventually burst.
The location of the burst vessel determines the severity of
the results. If it’s a brain vessel, you can have a stroke.
If it’s a vessel that feeds blood to the heart, you can have
a heart attack or suffer complete heart failure. In order to prevent stroke you should keep your blood pressure down (more…)

High Blood Pressure and Depression, Is There Connection?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Someone asked me recently about depression treatment.  He purchased the Reduce High Blood Pressure Program and jokingly asked if he could be depressed from it.

This is in fact no joke. Researches have shown direct link between high blood pressure and depression. Going both ways. And if one can keep blood pressure under control then they can prevent stroke too.

Depression as the Primary and Hypertenstion as the result:  People suffering from chronic depression or other anxiety are up to three times more likely to also develop high blood pressure.

What makes things worse is that people who have depression are more likely to over eat, smoke and drink too much. And they’re less likely to seek treatment to reduce high blood pressure. (more…)